Osian's Auction Catalogue India The Passionate Detachment | February 2001

THE PASSIONATE DETACHMENT 124 91 D.P.ROY CHOWDHURY (1899 - 1975) Portrait / Bengal Famine Series (double-sided) Mixed Media on paper, mid 1940s 35.4 x 24 cm. (13.9 x 9.4”) Rs. 150,000 - 200,000 $ 3,190 - 4,255 92 D. P. ROY CHOWDHURY (1899 - 1975) Face Signed in Bengali, l.r. Watercolour & wash on paper, late 1940s 16.8 x 23.7 cm. (6.6 x 9.3”) “D.P. Roy Chowdhury, though a product of the Bengal School, had his eyes firmly set on the principles of art enunciated by the Royal School of Art, England. Therefore, South Indian artists who came to learn art from Roy Chowdhury were caught in the mixed influences of the realism of the British School and the romanticism of the Bengal School and these two streams functioned literally as two parallel forces. It is doubtful if such a situation existed in any other part of the country”. (Anjali Sircar, LKC #32 1985 , p15). For Lot 91 & 92 PAPR Lot 283 So.NY/17.09.98 Sad Reflections Ink on card 38.4 x 24.8 cm. ASP: $ 1,955/ Rs.82,892 ($1 = Rs. 42.40) Rs. 125,000 - 175,000 $ 2,660 - 3,725